Re: [PATCH] slab: minor cleanup to kmem_cache_alloc_node

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 14:47:33 EST


On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 09:21 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > You could move the check for -1 into the section where interrupts are
> > disabled.
> So we could do something like the following. Unfortunately it does not
> seem much of an improvement... Thoughts?

Remove the gotos. Something like this. It would be nice if we could remove
the printk. Hmm....

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2.orig/mm/slab.c 2005-11-21 10:51:03.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2/mm/slab.c 2005-11-21 11:43:31.000000000 -0800
@@ -2890,21 +2890,20 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t
unsigned long save_flags;
void *ptr;

- if (nodeid == -1)
- return __cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
+ cache_alloc_debugcheck_before(cachep, flags);
+ local_irq_save(save_flags);

- if (unlikely(!cachep->nodelists[nodeid])) {
+ if (nodeid == -1 || nodeid == numa_node_id())
+ ptr = ____cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
+
+ else if (unlikely(!cachep->nodelists[nodeid])) {
/* Fall back to __cache_alloc if we run into trouble */
printk(KERN_WARNING "slab: not allocating in inactive node %d for cache %s\n", nodeid, cachep->name);
- return __cache_alloc(cachep,flags);
- }
+ ptr = ____cache_alloc(cachep,flags);

- cache_alloc_debugcheck_before(cachep, flags);
- local_irq_save(save_flags);
- if (nodeid == numa_node_id())
- ptr = ____cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
- else
+ } else
ptr = __cache_alloc_node(cachep, flags, nodeid);
+
local_irq_restore(save_flags);
ptr = cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(cachep, flags, ptr, __builtin_return_address(0));

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